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Tōru Hashimoto (橋下 徹, Hashimoto Tōru, born 29 June 1969) is a Japanese TV personality, politician, and lawyer. He is a former governor of Osaka Prefecture and mayor of City of Osaka. He is a founder of Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Osaka Restoration Association. He is one of Japan's leading right-wing conservative-populist politicians.
Jan 16, 2014 · By mid-2012, less than five years after entering politics, Hashimoto Tōru was Japan’s most popular politician. Hashimoto’s television-generated fame and crowd-pleasing skills propelled him to an easy win in his first election, in 2008, for the governorship of Osaka Prefecture.
- Charles Weathers
- 2014
Feb 15, 2012 · The leader of the Osaka Restoration Association (a reformist group whose name alludes openly to the nineteenth-century Meiji Restoration) stepped down as Osaka governor to run for the...
Jul 13, 2021 · This article analyses attempts by City of Osaka public servants to use the Japanese legal system to thwart the policies of controversial mayor, Tōru Hashimoto (2011 to 2015).
- Stacey Steele, Geraldine Carney
- 2021
Tōru Hashimoto (橋下 徹, Hashimoto Tōru, born 29 June 1969) is a Japanese TV personality, politician and lawyer. He is a former governor of Osaka Prefecture and mayor of City of Osaka. He is a founder of Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Osaka Restoration Association. He is one of Japan's leading right-wing conservative-populist politicians.
Jul 25, 2012 · Osaka Mayor Hashimoto Tōru is one of several dynamic young local leaders bent on building a national organization capable of making a splash in the next general election.
Jul 24, 2012 · Osaka Mayor Hashimoto Tōru has been grabbing a major share of the political limelight in Japan. Is he a reformer or a rabble-rouser?
